Improvement in cotton-bale ties



U ITED STATES PATMEQE.

CHAS. SVVETT, OF VIOKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES Gr.

JOHNSON, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON-BALE Tl ES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,144, dated October 23, 1866; antedated April 23, 1866.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, OHARLEs SWETT, of Vicksburg, in the county of Warren and State of Mississippi, have invented a new and Improved Fastening-Block for Securing Metallic Bands or Hoops to Cotton-Bales; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,making-part of this specification Figure 1 being a top view of the saidfastening-block, and Fig. 2, a section in the line 00 m, Fig. 1.

Like letters designate corresponding parts in both figures' 1 I employ a block, B, of suitable size, either made by casting or stamping out of metal. In this block are formed two slots or holes, a a, parallel with each other, across the block. The length of the slots is to be equal to the width of the hoop, A, to be used. From the lower and inner edges of the slots projections 11 I) extend out obliquely beneath said slots, and nearly covering their lower openings, substantially as shown in Fig. 2.

To apply the fastening, one end, 0, of the hoop A'is passed down through one slot and bent aroundits projection b. The hoop is then passed around the bale, and its other end, d, put down through the other slot 1, and finally bent down around its projection b, the end of the hoop reaching in and lapping beyond the other end, a, as far as the length of the hoop will permit. Then, when the bale is removed from the press, the elasticity of the cotton presses firmly against the ends of the hoops and prevents their being withdrawn.

Instead of fiat bands or hoops, round rods or Wire may be used, the holes in the fastening being shaped to suit the same.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent as a new manufacture, is-

My improved fastening-block for uniting the ends of metallic hands, when said bands are.

made to embrace compressed bales of cotton,

or other equivalent substance, substantially as herein set forth.

The above specification of my improved fastening for securing metallic hoops on cotton-bales, &c., signed and witnessed this 29th day of August, 1856.

CHARLES SWETT.

Witnesses:

DANIEL SWETT, G. W. GASKING. 

